Ginger River Review

Where China–India Relations Stand Today

Ep. 23 - BRICS, China-India economic ties, AI, people-to-people exchanges, and South Asia

Sep 10 • Jiang Jiang

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August 2026

After Prison, Finding a Place in Society

A Chinese retailer’s decision to recruit former prisoners opens a debate over jobs, second chances, and the challenges of reintegration

Aug 31 • Jiang Jiang

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What China’s AI Talent Market Is Paying For

A Chinese AI recruiter talks about $445,000 packages for new PhDs, the skills companies are struggling to find, and how demand for AI-native workers is…

Aug 14 • Jiang Jiang

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July 2026

Big Tech Pulled the Plug. They Downloaded Their Lovers.

How Chinese users created AI lovers, friends and family — and struggled to let them go

Jul 31 • Jiang Jiang

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Nomura's Chief China Economist on AI's Economic Impact

Dr. Lu Ting discusses the U.S.–China AI race, AI's macroeconomic impact, how AI is reshaping China's regional economy, semiconductor self-reliance, and…

Jul 24 • Jiang Jiang

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Inside a Candid Debate on China's Grassroots Government

A debate published by a Chinese magazine offers a candid window into digital governance, bureaucratic burden and grassroots government.

Jul 21 • Jiang Jiang

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China’s one-person company boom

Five stories from China’s OPC boom show how AI is lowering the barriers to entrepreneurship — and raising the demands on founders.

Jul 10 • Jiang Jiang

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June 2026

The Questions China Asked Its College-Bound Students This Year

A look at the themes explored in the 2026 essay prompts for China’s national college entrance examination

Jun 13 • Jiang Jiang

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January 2026

Jinghan Zeng on the controversy and reality of Confucius Institutes and China–UK relations

Ep. 22 - Memoirs of a Confucius Institute Director

Jan 30 • Jiang Jiang

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45:19

How Independent Bookstores in China Are Finding Ways to Survive — and Thrive

Blind-book boxes, revived out-of-print titles, and the quiet power of trust between booksellers and readers.

Jan 16 • Jiang Jiang

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Zhipu CEO Zhang Peng on Taking China’s First LLM Company Public

A wide-ranging conversation on AGI timelines, capital cycles, enterprise AI, and China’s AI competition, originally on the 張小珺Xiaojùn Podcast

Jan 11 • Jiang Jiang

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December 2025

How China’s City Leaders Work

Insights from a decade-long dataset on Party secretaries and mayors

Dec 19, 2025 • Jiang Jiang

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